The one thing for Trump is he seemed to value his loyal cronies. And he owed Comey big time. Comey got him over the line, into the white house.
Maybe Comey was just crazy, and not one of Trump's cronies. Or maybe there is some real dirt that Trump wants buried.
But I actually doubt the latter because Trump would not be able to distinguish between what is reasonable dealings with a foreign power.
But for the Trump faithful (half the population) this just confirms that Trump is an honest broker. Prepared to make hard decisions when needed even if it affects those that supported him.
I think that IT management could learn a lot from call center operators about how to maintain 100% efficiency from staff using active monitoring techniques. These can be combined with objective productivity measurements, like lines of code written or number of bugs fixed.
This is yet another security bug produced directly by the archaic C programming language. If this had been any other language the bug wold not have happened, despite the incompetent programmer. Null terminated strings! Wild pointer usage!
The steam tractor and combine harvester slashed the agricultural work force.
But their productivity is nothing compared to the power of early computers in the 1960s. Just imagine running a bank or a tax office without *any* computers at all. Everything done by hand. And that is nothing compared to office automation today.
And yet, bureaucracies have grown dramatically, not shrunk. Because while the human capacity for food is limited but the size of the gut, there is no such limit on the desire for rules and regulations, processes and procedures...
So I foresee a brave new world where everybody becomes a bureaucrat at some level or other.
In the longer term (100 years) humans will be obsolete technology, so it probably does not matter anyway.
Science Journalists are often journalists that write about science. TV producers even more so. So they write what they understand. At least this talks a bit about the science and not just about the scientists -- human interest, journos understand that.
Most articles are not controversial at all, and they will just sync them with Wikipedia. They can even do a real time sync, so that when Chinese editors update their version the updates go straight to Wikipedia.
The controversial articles will be home grown. But that is only a small fraction of the total.
That is the Archillies heal of Wikipedia. It can be selectively and repeatably forked. I see Russian and Turkish versions very soon.
As to picking boxes and handing to robots, that is very doable today, if not as cheap yet. Maybe when they do their full role out they will automate that part as well.
He had been denounced by his colleagues who wanted his job, nearly died in the Gulags, then released under Khrushchev.
He was completely unknown during the space race. His identity hidden.
He was resurrected during Glasnost, and only recently became a public hero. I spoke to a Russian back packer recently who was very proud of Korolev but completely unaware of the purging.
Ultimately this cost them the race to the moon. Korolev's mistreatment in the Gulags lead to his early death, after which their space program collapsed. A very Soviet story.
Personally, I always wondered why the Soviets did not just send a cosmonaut to moon one way. Much, much easier than the return. And they had already successfully landed a probe on the moon, just put a body inside and repeat. Cosmonauts are cheap.
Robots that can see. And respond in sensible ways.
"Bin Picking" requires recognizing which objects are which, and what their orientation ("pose") is. Then plan a way to move to collect them.
That is an order of magnitude more sophisticate than simply moving in rigid, predefined ways to work on things that have been precisely positioned in advanced.
It opens up whole new fields of automation.
And it is not that new, bin picking robots have been around for a while. They are getting better. This is only a story because Amazon is doing it now.
+1. Even Trump will get things right occasionally.
Do people really think that all of the world's problem's, real and imagined, are the US fault alone? And that it is OK for Assad to drop poison gas on civilians.
You attack your enemy, and if successful take their land. So what do you do with the people? Either make them slaves or eat them. Simple.
This is exactly what had happened in New Zealand for centuries. But then the great chief Honga Hika realized the potential of muskets. He managed to go all the way to England, proportadly to help missionaries with a Mauri dictionary, but actually to get his hands on the "thousand thousand" muskets he heard were stored in a place called the tower of London. In that he failed, but he did manage to bring back sufficient muskets to eat many of his countrymen.
When the British came some years later they had two problems. Firstly, the Mauri were very used to fighting with Muskets and used them well. The second was that the "traditional" owner on a piece of land may only have owned it for a decade or so, having eaten the previous owner.
Tribal life was tough. If you lose a battle, you lose your land, and then you starve.
One big difference is that in the US vaccinations require multiple individual trips to the doctor which cost a fortune for those not on health insurance.
Whereas in Australia it is provided free by the government. And for schools, the nurse comes around and just jabs all the kids. Cheap and efficient.
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The one thing for Trump is he seemed to value his loyal cronies. And he owed Comey big time. Comey got him over the line, into the white house.
Maybe Comey was just crazy, and not one of Trump's cronies. Or maybe there is some real dirt that Trump wants buried.
But I actually doubt the latter because Trump would not be able to distinguish between what is reasonable dealings with a foreign power.
But for the Trump faithful (half the population) this just confirms that Trump is an honest broker. Prepared to make hard decisions when needed even if it affects those that supported him.
Middle class Americans are no worse off than middle class Europeans.
Both the French and Russian revolutions were by the middle class.
The poor will happily fight to death against another nation or religion. But they will never fight against their betters.
I think that IT management could learn a lot from call center operators about how to maintain 100% efficiency from staff using active monitoring techniques. These can be combined with objective productivity measurements, like lines of code written or number of bugs fixed.
strncpy is just broken. Period.
It should complain if there is no null termination in the first string. The code should work, it just does not work around the bug in strncpy.
Very much like strncpy not adding a null if it is N long.
Lots of C grade rubbish that we still live with.
Indeed.
This is yet another security bug produced directly by the archaic C programming language. If this had been any other language the bug wold not have happened, despite the incompetent programmer. Null terminated strings! Wild pointer usage!
C is evil.
The steam tractor and combine harvester slashed the agricultural work force.
But their productivity is nothing compared to the power of early computers in the 1960s. Just imagine running a bank or a tax office without *any* computers at all. Everything done by hand. And that is nothing compared to office automation today.
And yet, bureaucracies have grown dramatically, not shrunk. Because while the human capacity for food is limited but the size of the gut, there is no such limit on the desire for rules and regulations, processes and procedures...
So I foresee a brave new world where everybody becomes a bureaucrat at some level or other.
In the longer term (100 years) humans will be obsolete technology, so it probably does not matter anyway.
http://www.computersthink.com/
Maybe we could just send those excess kids to China? Rent therm out.
But their lives would seem to be a lot longer if they cut out the butter.
Where "obese" is defined to have more than 1 oz of fat on their bodies...
It is 90% fashion, 10% science.
Of course they cannot play outside. Health and safety. Not to mention the deadly radiation emitted by the sun.
But they are welcome to watch pictures of kids playing outside on their devices.
Science Journalists are often journalists that write about science. TV producers even more so. So they write what they understand. At least this talks a bit about the science and not just about the scientists -- human interest, journos understand that.
NO. They will not have to write their own.
Most articles are not controversial at all, and they will just sync them with Wikipedia. They can even do a real time sync, so that when Chinese editors update their version the updates go straight to Wikipedia.
The controversial articles will be home grown. But that is only a small fraction of the total.
That is the Archillies heal of Wikipedia. It can be selectively and repeatably forked. I see Russian and Turkish versions very soon.
He who controls the past controls the future...
To give the coral back its colour. There are plenty of good marine paints that can be used. Just around the tourist spots will do.
58 years is roughly the time frame that machines become truly intelligent. Certainly much smarter than they are now. Robots everywhere.
Most futuristic predictions completely miss that fact. It is just beyond our human emotional comprehension.
See below for some ideas on what this might really mean.
http://www.comptuersthink.com/
Interesting that even they are doing that.
As to picking boxes and handing to robots, that is very doable today, if not as cheap yet. Maybe when they do their full role out they will automate that part as well.
He had been denounced by his colleagues who wanted his job, nearly died in the Gulags, then released under Khrushchev.
He was completely unknown during the space race. His identity hidden.
He was resurrected during Glasnost, and only recently became a public hero. I spoke to a Russian back packer recently who was very proud of Korolev but completely unaware of the purging.
Ultimately this cost them the race to the moon. Korolev's mistreatment in the Gulags lead to his early death, after which their space program collapsed. A very Soviet story.
Personally, I always wondered why the Soviets did not just send a cosmonaut to moon one way. Much, much easier than the return. And they had already successfully landed a probe on the moon, just put a body inside and repeat. Cosmonauts are cheap.
Robots that can see. And respond in sensible ways.
"Bin Picking" requires recognizing which objects are which, and what their orientation ("pose") is. Then plan a way to move to collect them.
That is an order of magnitude more sophisticate than simply moving in rigid, predefined ways to work on things that have been precisely positioned in advanced.
It opens up whole new fields of automation.
And it is not that new, bin picking robots have been around for a while. They are getting better. This is only a story because Amazon is doing it now.
It is robots that will build the more robots, not people.
+1. Even Trump will get things right occasionally.
Do people really think that all of the world's problem's, real and imagined, are the US fault alone? And that it is OK for Assad to drop poison gas on civilians.
Get real.
You attack your enemy, and if successful take their land. So what do you do with the people? Either make them slaves or eat them. Simple.
This is exactly what had happened in New Zealand for centuries. But then the great chief Honga Hika realized the potential of muskets. He managed to go all the way to England, proportadly to help missionaries with a Mauri dictionary, but actually to get his hands on the "thousand thousand" muskets he heard were stored in a place called the tower of London. In that he failed, but he did manage to bring back sufficient muskets to eat many of his countrymen.
When the British came some years later they had two problems. Firstly, the Mauri were very used to fighting with Muskets and used them well. The second was that the "traditional" owner on a piece of land may only have owned it for a decade or so, having eaten the previous owner.
Tribal life was tough. If you lose a battle, you lose your land, and then you starve.
I'd blame the Democrats for this. They did not hold the Republicans to account. Probably because they did not notice.
Or they figured, correctly, that farmers would vote Republican regardless of laws were passed.
+1. People miss the real point.
More importantly, the idea that things will not be done in the future because we do not know how to do them today flies in the face of history.
To misquote Bill Gates "We tend to overestimate what can be done in a decade, but underestimate what can be done in a century".
As to merging with machines, I think it will happen. In the same way that meat merges with a mincing machine.
http://www.computersthink.com/
One big difference is that in the US vaccinations require multiple individual trips to the doctor which cost a fortune for those not on health insurance.
Whereas in Australia it is provided free by the government. And for schools, the nurse comes around and just jabs all the kids. Cheap and efficient.